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26 ssss1 Elizabeth Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse (New York: Crossroad 1992), 266.

27 ssss1 Don Schweitzer, Contemporary Christologies (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2010), 69.

28 ssss1 I am happy to recognize a debt to Karl Barth here. If we are going to know what God is like, then we need to trust that God has spoken. The disclosure of God in the Eternal Wisdom made flesh is our control on our theology. Any legitimate affirmation about God and God’s relations with the world need to be justified, grounded in, or deduced from the Incarnation. See my Understanding Christian Doctrine (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) for further discussion.

29 ssss1 Stephen C. Barton, “Gospel Wisdom,” in Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World, ed. Stephen Barton (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999), 94.

30 ssss1 To talk of Jesus as the Wisdom of God opens possibilities. Colin Gunton has a radical inclusivity when he explains that the Wisdom of God embodied in Christ embodies all the wisdom of even non-Christian cultures. So Gunton writes, “To say that the crucified Christ is the Wisdom of God is to say that he is the key to the meaning of the whole of the created order, and therefore the source of true wisdom, wherever that is to be found.” Colin Gunton, “Christ, the Wisdom of God,” in Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World, ed. Stephen Barton (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999), 260.